Results 24,681-24,700 of 35,894 for speaker:Pearse Doherty
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (10 Jun 2015)
Pearse Doherty: And you were at the meeting?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (10 Jun 2015)
Pearse Doherty: Did you offer an opinion at the meeting?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (10 Jun 2015)
Pearse Doherty: When we have a board member saying that this was going to collapse like a house of cards, is that not your prompt? As you were saying, that you were trying to get this message out for such a long time ... you're at the board meeting, one of the board members has said "This is going to collapse like a house of cards" ... is this not like the doors opened?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (10 Jun 2015)
Pearse Doherty: Are you aware of any other contrarian voices inside the Central Bank or IFSRA and can you outline some examples? Again without mentioning names.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (10 Jun 2015)
Pearse Doherty: Who had the authority to issue papers on the board? Like, one of the divisions under you is the publications division, when you were chief economist, who had the authority to sanction research papers? Did it have ... was it the Governor or the board or could you do that?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (10 Jun 2015)
Pearse Doherty: Property sector, property sector------
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (10 Jun 2015)
Pearse Doherty: The question is did you have the power to authorise research papers on commercial property, for example?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (10 Jun 2015)
Pearse Doherty: The research ... it would be researched, so you can't predetermine what the conclusion is----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (10 Jun 2015)
Pearse Doherty: -----on a piece of research.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (10 Jun 2015)
Pearse Doherty: No, the question is, sorry, sorry-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (10 Jun 2015)
Pearse Doherty: Sorry, just to ... just here ... the question is did you have the authority to commission the research? At that stage, you would have no idea what the conclusion would be, it's a piece of research.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (10 Jun 2015)
Pearse Doherty: Okay. What ... can I ask you, I'll make a quote because Mr. Dan McLaughlin came before the committee and he said and I'll quote him: The other thing I would point out is the major losses in Irish banks were not in residential property, they were in commercial property ... in commercial property. Not many people, if I recall, wrote anything about commercial property, and that was what...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (10 Jun 2015)
Pearse Doherty: Can I finally make this point? You've been informing our committee and we thank you for that-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (10 Jun 2015)
Pearse Doherty: This is the last question. You've been informing the committee - and we thank you for that - about the difficulties you had in trying to get your message out. You now inform us that you had the ability to commission papers on behalf of the Central Bank and you did not commission any paper in relation to commercial property, which, you agree, was the reason that caused the banks to collapse...
- Draft Commission of Investigation (Certain matters concerning transactions entered into by IBRC) Order 2015: Motion (9 Jun 2015)
Pearse Doherty: Ba mhaith liom an leasú atá curtha chun tosaigh ag Páirtí Shinn Féin a mholadh anseo. Mar is eol don Aire, níl ár bpáirtí sásta leis na téarmaí tagartha atá leagtha síos ag an Rialtas ó thaobh an choimisiúin fhiosrúcháin seo, agus is mór an trua é sin i ndiaidh cúpla iarracht fá...
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: One-Parent Family Payments (9 Jun 2015)
Pearse Doherty: 194. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of families in Dublin whose one-parent family payment will be reduced in July 2015; and if she will provide details per post code. [21560/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tobacco Seizures (9 Jun 2015)
Pearse Doherty: 281. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of negotiations at European Union level to renew the Philip Morris International agreement; Ireland's attitudes to the possibility of renewing and extending the agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21820/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tobacco Seizures (9 Jun 2015)
Pearse Doherty: 314. To ask the Minister for Finance the revenue accruing to the State each year since the signing of the Philip Morris International agreement; the purpose for which this revenue was used; the way it was accounted for; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21815/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tobacco Seizures (9 Jun 2015)
Pearse Doherty: 315. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of cigarette seizures that number over 450 million cigarettes in each of the past five years; the number of these seizures that consisted of genuine Philip Morris cigarettes. [21816/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tobacco Seizures (9 Jun 2015)
Pearse Doherty: 316. To ask the Minister for Finance the total number of Philip Morris cigarettes seized in each of the past five years; and the numbers in each seizure. [21817/15]